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Girls Domestic Science Class

Date: 1909
Description: A class of girls learn how to set a table in domestic science class at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Girls' Gym Class

Date: 1900
Description: Girls playing basketball outdoors at Hillside Home School, an early progressive school operated by Ellen and Jane Lloyd Jones, aunts of Frank Lloyd Wright.
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Elementary School Class

Date: 05 1909
Description: Slightly elevated view from front of students and teachers in an early 20th century school classroom. The names of all the students are written on the blac...
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Physics Lab

Date: 1901
Description: Students and teacher in physics lab at Stevens Point Normal School, which would later become the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.
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Tuskegee Institute Machine Shop

Date: 1902
Description: The machine shop at the "Normal School for Negroes" or the Tuskegee Institute in action. The students are diligently working at the machinery in the shop.
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University of Wisconsin Women's Carpentry Class

Date: 1900
Description: Women working with tools, including a saw, in the University of Wisconsin Agricultural Extension women's carpentry class.
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Dumbbell Drill At Indian Industrial School

Date: 1900
Description: Female students performing a dumbbell drill inside the gymnasium at the Indian Industrial School.
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Club Drill at Indian Industrial School

Date: 1900
Description: Male students performing a club drill inside the gymnasium at the Indian Industrial School.
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High School

Date: 1900
Description: Group portrait of school children lined up in front of Belleville high school. Caption reads: "Bellevilee, Wis. School".
Postcard

Greetings from Haugen Wisconsin

Date: 1905
Description: Multiple views of Haugen, including a church, a school with a group of students posed outside, and a locomotive at the railroad station, etc. Caption at to...
Postcard

Knowlton School

Date: 1909
Description: Exterior view of the school, with a young class and teacher posing in front. Caption reads: "Public School, Knowlton, Wisconsin".
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Middleton Grade School

Date: 1902
Description: Students standing outside of Middleton Grade School, at its original location at the southwest end of Middleton near a stone quarry. The building was moved...
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First and Second Grades at Scribner School

Date: 1908
Description: First and second grade students in their classroom at Scribner School.
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Small Children Sitting in a Circle

Date: 1900
Description: A group of small children, probably Flora LeClaire's kindergarten class, sits in a circle on the floor of a classroom. Various decorations adorn the walls ...
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Children at School Table

Date: 1900
Description: Children in a kindergarten class sit around a table with their teacher, probably Flora LeClaire. The calendars on the wall indicate that this photograph w...
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First Annual Grant County Spelling, Adding, and Writing Contest

Date: 05 07 1909
Description: Large group of school children and adults posed outside. Some of the students are holding banners.
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Helen's Sunday School Class

Date: 1901
Description: A group portrait of aunt Helen's Sunday school class outside. There is a tent or open-sided awning to the right of the group. Nine girls stand in a line, w...
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Stockholm Village School

Date: 1905
Description: Students and teachers standing outside two-story brick Public School building.
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School for the Deaf

Date: 1902
Description: Group portrait taken at the 50th anniversary of the Wisconsin School for the Deaf, entitled "Semi-Centennial Visitors". Identified are: second from left in...
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Clarion State Normal School

Date: 1905
Description: A view of a class posing outside in white dresses, each student holding a handkerchief. The females appear to be in a cross formation. Caption reads: "Mid...

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